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Warren Area HS
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 35% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Warren Area HS
Set in Warren, Pennsylvania, Warren Area HS is an average-sized secondary school, operated by Warren County SD. It hosts 704 students across grades 9 through 12.
Across the 9 schools in Warren County SD (3,796 students total), Warren Area HS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, Warren Area HS lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%); the rest breaks down as 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Warren County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
After controlling for student poverty, Warren Area HS ranks in the top 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 35.4%; Warren Area HS posts 54.5%, +19.1 points above that line.
In the surrounding community, census data for Warren County shows the typical household earns roughly $60,480 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Warren Area HS is one of 12 public schools in Warren County (combined enrollment of about 4,489 students).
Warren Area El Ctr is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Warren Area HS at 1st of 5; the average score across the group is 36.1%.
Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 5%: 743 students in 2018 compared to 704 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.
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